CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-2016

7.0 HIGH Published 2020-05-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-05-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
8.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362, CWE-377

Description

A race condition due to insecure creation of a file in a temporary directory vulnerability in PAN-OS allows for root privilege escalation from a limited linux user account. This allows an attacker who has escaped the restricted shell as a low privilege administrator, possibly by exploiting another vulnerability, to escalate privileges to become root user. This issue affects: PAN-OS 7.1 versions earlier than 7.1.26; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than 8.1.13; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than 9.0.6; All versions of PAN-OS 8.0.

Affected configurations

• paloaltonetworks pan-os (>= 7.1.0 < 7.1.26) • paloaltonetworks pan-os (>= 8.0.0 <= 8.0.20) • paloaltonetworks pan-os (>= 8.1.0 < 8.1.13) • paloaltonetworks pan-os (>= 9.0.0 < 9.0.6)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References